I don't know - ask the Italians.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Do we have any public statues of any of the Roman Emperors who presided over the Roman occupation of Britain in this country?
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I don't know - ask the Italians.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Do we have any public statues of any of the Roman Emperors who presided over the Roman occupation of Britain in this country?
i dont think so barry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Yes. Trajen on Tower Hill London, Constantine in York. There are several statues of Emperors and Governors at the baths in Bath.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
None of them were put up by the actual Romans though, does that make a difference?
thats pretty recent i think? although emperor he was i dont think active in briton. he went east i think. constantine was certainly in york; think he became emperor there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I think it's time those statues went. I mean, what did the Romans ever do for us? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health??? ..... f**k all!!!!..... apart from peace i suppose :ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
People called the Romans they go to their homes.
Go home? This is motion towards isn't it boy?
Romani ite domum... do it by morning or i'll cut your balls off!:lol:
What I can't understand is why there aren't any statues of our last great prime minister, Tony Blair. I mean Iraq and all that, but who cares? I've got two words for you, M People.
I think my brain might have had a funny turn during the night, nothing in the last four posts makes any sense to me :doh:
And I thought our last great Prime Minister was Jim Hacker.
it was scene with cleese as centurian giving the writer of slogans a hard time on his latin vocab:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
:D Aah, I see... time I watched it again, it's been a few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Aren't benefits tenants just the best?
Yesterday I started replacing a house of windows and front door at a rental property. I was warned that the tenant was a bit odd. He took himself off upstairs while we replaced the lounge window and front door, but when I shouted upstairs that we were finishing for the day, and that I'd lock the new front door and post the keys, I got no reply. I assumed he was having a kip (most benefits tenants play by night and sleep all day ime).
Went back this morning, and couldn't rouse him. Fearing he might be dead or even worse we broke through an old (next-to-be-replaced) window. Just as the guy turned up. He'd snuck out yesterday, stayed out into the evening, then came home to find himself locked out. So he went and slept on a mate's sofa. So the constant smell of weed yesterday wasn't him, but his neighbour.
Seemed ok about it all, and went off to the shop while we broke into his house, to buy a can of beer. At 9am.
Bet he couldn't do it twice!
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon...X50fS50g%3D%3D
I can see that look catching on with caravanners.
To get it back on is simple enough: place some planks on the ground at the entrance for the van to reverse onto. Then when roof is over its desired position, deflate van tyres and slowly reverse some more. Then bugger off, sell the van and never return :)
BrilliantQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
something going on here, I seem to be finding myself agreeing with every thing that you say Steve :cool:
Jimmy carr gypsy holocaust joke was well funny, haven't looked on Twittet - or PFM - yet but I imagine they're all wetting their pants.
I know! What you should be saying is "I'd agree with you Steve, but then we'd both be wrong" :)Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
How the fuck did that prat Robert Preston get thr Itv news at 10 gig? Last night he was hinting that Johnson was slipping into Trumpian aka Fascist behaviour. Can we expect to see Johnson's supporters march on Parliament when he gets the boot?
Har-har-har-har-har-harrr... That was my best Jimmy Carr laugh. Can you link to the joke Mike? I don't do Twitter or Piss Flaps Monthly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ys-sajid-javidQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I suspect your internet history would tell us otherwise! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
https://www.landsend.co.uk/Men/Tops_...362#scroll=482Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I never pay full price - they are going for £9 at the moment. Cotton, decent weight, no logo, range of plain colours. Very good quality. I have bought from them for years.
Recently I have bought some long sleeves Tees. I like those too.
Getting closer..Nuclear fusion heat record
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...droidApp_Other
They've been tinkering with that idea for generations. I remember the ZETA Project from when I was a kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZETA_(fusion_reactor)
Turkish goodwill visitor to Germany fails in mission.
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-02-09/...ough-red-light
During my time at the Marconi Research Centre we designed and built some gear for the Joint European Torus at Culham. I have seen the device during a visit there, and indeed it does look impressive, both in size and of it's enormous thirst for electricity; but as a one of the Culham staff remarked: "It is a crude machine".Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Bit of a whiff here.
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022...-over-accounts
yeah i read that earlier.. obviously dont know the whole story, just the headline but inclined to think its mischief making. they did have to use a lot of staff to go through all the letters/donations etc. itmight have more legs tho .there wasnt silly amounts talked about. 40k or soQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
In that time it also spent £240,000 on costs grouped under the heading of fundraising - made up of £162,336 in management costs, which included £126,424 in "fundraising consultancy fees" and £20,884 in advertising and marketing costs.
from the link story - "consultancy fees" :hmm:
more today and it appears my 40k was quite a bit out:doh: looks shall we say, odd;)Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
lady met, clarissa dick is resigning.
They are even more dickless now.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Didn't look much like a copper did she? I reckon she'd struggle with a couple of bags of shopping, let alone break up a scrap outside the boozer.
boris could move sideways to that job:D he'd be a great commissioner... party anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
He'd be overqualified :rolleyes:. Bet he'd like the uniform though.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
i wonder if, for her last job, she will nick' Boris and take him down to the station for a rubber hosing:eek: please:ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
May I reprimand the author of that post?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Who watches the watchmen?
seems like every day now there is someone being sacked or suspended or something for making some sort of politically incorrect comment but they never report what the comment was so we can make up our own minds.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Like this
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...?ocid=msedgntp
Neil Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, has been accused of using offensive language in conversation with a reporter at Strangers' Bar, who said it caused him to feel "uncomfortable in my place of work".
No mention of what he is supposed to have said. Plus it's worrying that these days anyone can just claim you said something and bam! - that's it you're suspended or sacked.
Why not just tell the person to his face that he's out of order and to pack it in? Instead they have to go running off to teacher. 'Miss! Miss! That boy said something bad!'
I suspect the reporter is a delicate little flower who might be better off in another job where he doesn't have to encounter real life as much. Or he needs to be given a reporting job that might give him some perspective about what makes him 'uncomfortable.' Reporting from the front-line in a war for example.
he called china fumanchu etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...acist-comments
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Originally Posted by struth
Dyer said that as he left the bar later, he waved goodbye to Coyle, “to which he responded by putting two fingers up at me”.
So he thinks he's been insulted but still 'waves goodbye' to the bloke? Because that's what you do when someone's offended you isn't it?
People are being very naughty!
ruskies say they wont invade ukraine, so obviously the will... us and uk getting citizens out that want to go. im betting if he does, then china will go into taiwan shortly.
territory grabbing like this spells war across world..
Putin will do whatever he likes. Nobody can stop him if he marches in.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
There'd be a big fuss from around the world, then behind the scenes the banks will say it's bad for business and tell 'em all to shut up.
Not so sure about China, their economy relies on world wide exports and being boycotted would be a disaster.
i see one of the 3 lassa fever cases in uk has died.. dangerous shit that and as yet no vaccine... first cases here since 2009
Just the spot! A motorcycle driver in Chicago found a 3ft spot to park without paying or risking being towed.
Smart guy or gal.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0ace2fc7d4.jpg
its the type of thing that will get likes of trump and co back in for good.. and wel will be stuck in middle, freezing our butts off eating grits or beetroot:ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Will probably get done for not parking parallel to the kerb. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Trouble that affects the West may cause people to hang onto money so less gets imported from China. The Chinese will see the possibility and may pressure Putin to ease off. He may not listen of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Russia are the weak ones here, threatened by Nato aka the US on its borders. It pains me to read in the Times AND Guardian articles supporting Western military action, I mean really, you gonna fall for this shit again?